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Beauty salon ban in Afghanistan a blow to women’s financial freedom
Kabul, AfghanistanReuters For the last eight years, Marzia Reyazee has supported her family with the earnings from her female-only beauty salon in Afghanistan, a business she spent more than $US18,000 setting up. But the 34-year-old mother of two is likely to find herself without her business, and with few other prospects for a livelihood, when […]
Afghan girls struggle with poor internet as they turn to online classes
Kabul, Afghanistan Reuters Sofia logs in to class on a laptop in Kabul for an online English course run by one of a growing number of educational institutes trying to reach Afghanistan’s girls and women digitally in their homes. But when the teacher calls on Sofia to read a passage her computer screen freezes. “Can […]
Parents grieve for three-month old baby, a victim of Afghanistan’s deadly winter
Kabul, AfghanistanReuters Shamila doesn’t have a photo of the baby son who died in her arms in freezing temperatures at their home in Kabul this month, but she remembers his face perfectly. “He had a white and bright face, big eyes, a small nose and black hair,” she said. The parents of Amrullah, a child […]
Freezing temperatures kill 78 people in Afghanistan
Kabul, AfghanistanReuters At least 78 people have died of cold in Afghanistan during the country’s worst winter in more than a decade, authorities said on Thursday. Deaths from the cold have been recorded in eight of the country’s 34 provinces, officials said. An Afghan man walks on a snow-covered cemetery in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 11th […]
Afghan hospital wards fill with children suffering from pneumonia
Kabul, AfghanistanReuters In a bitterly cold bedroom at the start of winter in Kabul, 22-year Maryam sat with her baby son bundled up in a red jumper as he coughed days after being discharged for the third time from a hospital ward for suspected pneumonia. Every time 10-month old Rahmat’s parents bring him home from […]
Taliban-led Afghan administration suspends women from universities; two detained Americans released
Kabul, AfghanistanReuters Afghanistan’s Taliban-run higher education ministry on Tuesday suspended access to universities by female students until further notice, drawing strong condemnation from the United States, Britain and the United Nations. A letter, confirmed by a spokesperson for the higher education ministry, instructed Afghan public and private universities to suspend access to female students immediately, […]
Kabul hotel attack ends as three gunmen killed; two foreigners injured
Kabul, AfghanistanReuters Armed men opened fire on Monday inside a hotel in central Kabul popular with Chinese nationals in an attack that ended when at least three gunmen were killed by security forces, the Taliban-run administration said. Two foreigners were injured while trying to escape by jumping from the hotel balcony, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid […]
Taliban allow high school graduation exams for Afghan girls
Islamabad, PakistanAP Afghan girls will be allowed to take their high school graduation exams this week, an official and documents from the Taliban government indicated Tuesday – even though they have been banned from classrooms since the former insurgents took over the country last year. According to two documents from the Taliban ministry of education, […]
Kabul blast a setback for Afghan women seeking education against the odds
Kabul, AfghanistanReuters Raihana, 19, wanted to be a doctor, studying until midnight in recent weeks for Afghanistan’s university entrance exam, a chance for women to advance their education even as they face growing restrictions from the Taliban government. Her diligent preparation ended on Friday when a suicide attacker detonated his explosives during a practice exam […]